ALLOCATION OF HUMAN RESOURCES IN MEDICAL COOPERATIVES USING A CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEM APPROACH

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Abstract

This work intends to contribute to reducing hospital
operation costs, proposing a new tool for planning for the
allocation of human resources in hospitals using
cooperative physician services, specifically, a new tool for
human resource allocation in health units. The solution to
the allocation problem uses the CSP technique (Constraint
Satisfaction Problem) associated with a backtracking
search algorithm. With the objective of enhancing the
backtracking search algorithm performance a new
heuristics is proposed. Through some simulations the
performance of the proposed heuristics is compared to the
other heuristics previously published in the literature:
remaining minimum values, forward checking and grade
heuristics.